Our Unfortunate Farmers. Protection on the Home Market. (To the Editor)
Sir.—There are hopes for Mr. Percy Meggy, who has made the astonishing discovery that Australia is not the only country which has a tariff. It…
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Farming & the land, 1928
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Farm Hints
To Destroy Rats.—When a house is infested with rats which refuse to be caught by cheese and other baits, a few drops of the highly-scented…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Trangie Show. Great Exhibition. Sheep and Cattle Sections Outstanding Feature. Record Attendance
The Trangie Show on Tuesday and Wednesday who held in ideal weather and a record display of exhibits attracted record attendance both days. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Auctions
Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., report:—Activities in wool in the Sydney market are confined to scoured skin wools, for which there…
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Goldsbrough, Mort and Company, Limited, report:—Everything connected with wool has been very quiet and buyers generally are so bent on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. the Wool Market
Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:—Business in wool circles in the Sydney market at present is decidedly quiet. The buyers,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Interesting Old Wool Chart. Prices From 1867-1876
When W. S. Millard and Sons took over the premises on the northern side of Burrowa street, Young, formerly occupied by W. F. Weeden, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blow Fly in Sheep. It's Cause and It's Control. the Future. No. IV
Quite apart from the large sums expended in palliatives for damage clone to sheep by blow fly it is seldom taken into account the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Charged with Cattle Stealing
An extraordinary story was told at the Rylstone court, when Elizabeth Hickman, a married woman, was charged with having stolen five head of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Notes Meat Production. Question of Expansion
Mr. J. B. Cramsie, Chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board who is a recognised authority on the Australian meat industry, remarks that within…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For Healthy Maize Crops. Hints on Seed Selection in the Field
The following hints are given by officers of the Department of Agriculture on the subject of seed selection of maize in the field:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SHEEP v. WHEAT
An incentive to sheep-raising may be found in the precarious position of the wheat market. Last season, although very few crops gave good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Deals
Some big deals in lambs for forward delivery are reported in the Nyngan district Mr. A. B. Triggs has purchased the whole drop of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science Research. for Pastoral Industry
Representatives of the graziers throughout Australia are hopeful that the response to their appeal for at least £200,000 for science…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →500 Cattle at Orange
On Thursday next, 31st May, at Orange, Leeds. Bros., Ltd., will sell at the yards 500 station bred shorthorn cattle, all good colours, well…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Last Wheat Harvest
The final returns of the wheat harvest for 1927-28 received by the Government Statistician (Mr. T. Whaites), compiled from returns…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Drought Resisting Wheat
"The work of investigating drought resisting wheat has been in progress for many years, and the discoveries of science have made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rust-resistant Wheat
"I believe that I have found a wheat which when further developed will he greatly rust resistant," said Dr. Seager Wheeler, Saskatchewan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brighter Wool Demand
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:—Judging by the hardening tendency seen in prices as wool sales progressed in London the recent downward…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Good Breed of Sheep Brought to Wellington
Mr. Masters, of Spicer's Creek, believes in keeping his stud sheep flock up to the highest standard, and this morning he took out a 50 guinea…
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